RI’s Molly Huddle USATF’s Athlete of the Week

INDIANAPOLIS
– Molly Huddle has been named USA Track & Field’s Athlete of the
Week after breaking the American record in the women’s 5,000m Friday at
the Belgacom Memorial van Damme, the final meeting of the Samsung
Diamond League in Brussels, Belgium.

The
2010 USA Outdoor runner-up, Huddle took .04 seconds off Shalane
Flanagan’s previous American record when she finished tenth in Brussels
in 14:44.76. Her time is also an Area and NACAC record. Huddle has now
taken over 30 seconds off the 15:17 lifetime best she had heading into
the 2010 outdoor season.

Now
in its ninth year, USATF’s Athlete of the Week program is designed to
recognize outstanding performers at all levels of the sport. USATF names
a new honoree each week and features the athlete on the USATF website.
Selections are based on top performances and results from the previous
week.

USA
Track & Field (USATF) is the National Governing Body for track and
field, long-distance running and race walking in the United States.
USATF encompasses the world’s oldest organized sports, some of the
most-watched events of Olympic broadcasts, the #1 high school and junior
high school participatory sport and more than 30 million adult runners
in the United States.